BLM UT GSENM Tourism and Rural Community Appreciative Inquiry Cooperative Plan

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This Pilot Project is a result of the BLMs realization that travel and tourism is poised to be one of the top six economic drivers for the U.S. economy within this decade, and that tourism constitutes a particularly strong influence within rural communities and on BLM public land attractions. Given this reality, BLM and the NLCS play a pivotal role in not only the conservation of rural natural and cultural assets, but their economic wellbeing and quality of life as well. As such, BLM and the NLCS would like to be responsive to local county and municipal interest in exploring the GSENM role in stimulating regional tourism and how that might benefit local communities economic and quality of life needs while maintaining the GSENM ecological and cultural purpose and values.

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